The British Library - UK Web Archive - A corpus of websites selected by leading UK institutions for their historical, social and cultural significance in the UK. The archive, set up in 2005, is free to view and may be searched alphabetically by site title, by URL or by a controlled set of subject categories. Select the 'button' on the right.

The National Archives - The Catalogue - the best place to start searching The National Archives at Kew. Select the 'button' on the right.

The National Archives - HM Customs and Excise - A Departmental history. Select the 'button' on the right.

The National Archives - Customs and Excise Officials and Tax Collectors - An official guide to searching The National Archives at Kew for Customs and Excise Officials and Tax Collectors (Inland Revenue). Select the 'button' on the right.

Cowes Customs - A history of HM Customs in Cowes, also covering other parts of the Isle of Wight. Select the 'button' on the right.

HM Customs & Excise - A Rootsweb 'Mailing List' for non-Waterguard discussions. To subscribe, send the revealed e-mail - without altering the subject line or body and with any auto signatures etc. deleted!. Select the 'button' on the right.

The Revenue Cutters Association - Formed in 1978 to bring together the crews of Her Majesty's Revenue Cutters. These are the modern high speed patrol craft crewed by Customs Officers combating smuggling around the United Kingdom coastline. Select the 'button' on the right.

The Vigilant Trust - Dedicated to restoring HMCC Vigilant - a steam driven, single screw customs cutter built in 1902 and the only surviving ship of the 1911 Coronation Spithead Review. Select the 'button' on the right.

Customs Collector - A site dedicated to Customs Officers and to collectors of Customs Insignia around the globe. This site, by John de Belle, contains images and information of Customs insignia, badges and pins from over 149 nations. Select the 'button' on the right.

British Coastguards 1841-1901 - A list of Coastguard officers, their dates & places of birth, the locations where they served and their family details, compiled by Stan Waight and presented by GENUKI - UK & Ireland Genealogy. Select the 'button' on the right.

Coastguards of Yesteryear - A site is dedicated to the Coastguards who lived and worked around the Irish coastline between the 18th and early 20th centuries, including a collection of Coastguard station photographs and facts and figures about the people - births, deaths, census information etc. It also includes some fascinating accounts of bravery during rescues from shipwrecks as well as interesting extracts of shipwrecks and rescues. Select the 'button' on the right.

HM Coastguard History - With historic links to HM Waterguard, today's Officers of Her Majesty's Coastguard are benefiting from nearly two centuries of maritime experience of their predecessors. Select the 'button' on the right.

Isle of Wight Coastguard Links - A variety of links to a variety of sites dealing with the Isle of Wight - Coastguard and Customs. Select the 'button' on the right.

UK Border Agency National Museum - Known previously as the HM Customs & Excise National Museum and HM Revenue and Customs National Museum - is part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum at the Albert Dock site on the banks of the River Mersey. The Merseyside Maritime Museum and its collections focuses on the port of Liverpool, Transatlantic Slavery, emigration, the Titanic and Lusitania, and the Maritime Archive and Library contains one of the finest collections of merchant shipping records in the UK. Select the 'button' on the right.

King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855  by E. Keble Chatterton - The Project Gutenberg eBook. Select the 'button' on the right.

Smugglers' Britain - Explore the fascinating story of smuggling in 18th and 19th century Britain, when high taxes led to a dramatic increase in illegal imports. As the 'free trade' grew, smugglers openly landed contraband in full view of the customs authorities: columns of heavily-armed thugs protected the cargoes. Select the 'button' on the right.

Smugglers of Cornwall - A feast of stories, articles and pictures of the Coastguard and the Revenue Men in the Cornwall of yesteryear. Select the 'button' on the right.

Smuggling in and around Burton Bradstock - The history of Burton Bradstock could not be written without reference to its illegal seafaring association. There are many legends of the activities of smugglers operating in the area, as Burton Bradstock was a key landing place at the centre of Lyme Bay. Select the 'button' on the right.

Flags of the World - is a site devoted to vexillology! Select the 'button' on the right.

Images of Victorian Piers - Victorian 'grand design' at its very best. A collection of postcard pictures capturing the grandeur of 'a promenade over the water'. Select the 'button' on the right.

Ships Pictures - By a marine artist producing original paintings and prints of ships and maritime scenes and specialising in pictures of classic British merchant vessels, in particular Liverpool based shipping lines such as Blue Funnel and Elder Dempster. As an ex-Customs Officer, he also paints images related to UK Customs. Select the 'button' on the right.

The Stragglers Skittles Team - The Team's weekly results displayed for the world to see - and chuckle over - as they struggle their way to the bottom of the Clevedon Skittles League! Select the 'button' on the right.

The TOMASIN Family History Project - Genealogy of the TOMASIN family with roots in Derbyshire, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Somerset and Sussex. Select the 'button' on the right.